Overview
- Officers who responded to reports of a disturbance at 26 Beacon Street found 47-year-old Jacklyn “Jackie” Berry with a gunshot wound after a verbal argument, and she later died at a Boston hospital following the Sunday incident.
- Winthrop police quickly detained a person of interest at the scene and investigators say the people involved knew each other and the shooting does not appear random.
- Prosecutors charged 58-year-old Sean Brewer, identified by family as Berry’s husband, with manslaughter and he is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court in East Boston on Tuesday.
- The building’s landlord, Blue Sky Realty, said Brewer was not an approved tenant and was not on Berry’s lease, and the family has launched an online fundraiser to help cover hospital and funeral costs.
- Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office joined the Winthrop investigation, police secured the scene with multiple cruisers, and officials say there is no ongoing threat to the public.